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George Washington

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George Washington

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Auction Date:2012 Aug 15 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Endorsement signed, “Go: Washington,” as president of the Potomack Company, and also signed by “George Gilpin” and “John Fitzgerald” as directors, dated in another hand November 1, 1787, at the conclusion of a manuscript document, 8.75 x 7, signed by Jacob Moore. The document reads, in full (with grammar and spelling retained): “October 26, 1787, the Portomok Companay. To Jacob Moore to taken Hugh Taler £3.0.0. to fining of him five weks porvisens} 2.0.0 to his passgis from Norfolk to Alexandra} 1 8 0 / £ 6- 8 0.” In another hand underneath is written: “Alexandria October 27th 1787. Received Six pounds Eight Shillings for amt of the above acct.” signed “Jacob Moore.” Perpendicular to this bill and receipt is docketed in unknown hand “Jacob Moore for taking up H. Taylor £6.8. pd Octr. 27th. 1787.” And “Pass’d Novemr. 1st 1787,” beneath which Washington, Gilpin, and Fitzgerald signed. Cloth matted and framed with an engraved portrait to an overall size of 23.5 x 15.5. In very good condition, with intersecting folds, scattered light toning and soiling, small hole to one corner, and all three signatures a few shades light, but completely legible.

Following the war, Washington became the president of the Potomack Company, a cooperative project of Maryland Virginia to build a network of roads and canals linking the Potomac River to the Ohio territories. He expressed interest in using the Potomac to extend inland trade as early as 1754, and by the 1780s was convinced the canal project was necessary to unify the country. The endeavor stirred interstate commerce concerns, in part prompting the 1787 Constitutional Convention several months prior. The co-signing directors, George Gilpin and John Fitzgerald, were both prominent Alexandrians who had risen to the rank of colonel during the Revolutionary War, and Fitzgerald—Washington’s former aide-de-camp—was a close friend and frequently dined at Mount Vernon. An intriguing document relating to the leader’s foray into business before winning the presidency.
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